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RUBBER SOLE AND HEEL FOR BOOTS 0R SHOES.

Patented Aug. 7, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND EPHRAIM, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

RUBBER SOLE AND HEEL FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,710, dated August '7, 1883.

Application filed June a, 1883. (No model.)

The object of this invention is to devise a.

practical method of providing rubber soles and heels with metal wearing points or sur faces for increasing the durability of the soles and heels; and to this end my invention consists in the employment of headed eyelets or rivets that are passed through the outer sole and heel and riveted before being applied to the boot or shoe.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the bottom of a boot or shoe having my approved sole and heel applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the inner surface of the sole before being attached to the boot or shoe, some of the holes in the sole being left vacant, ready to receive the rivets; and Fig. 4 is a perspective .view of the preferred form of rivet, nail, or eyelet.

A represents a rubber shoe made in the ordinary manner, and B 0 represent, respectively, my outer rubber sole and heel, secured to the ordinary sole and heel of the shoe by cement, or by other suitable means.

The sole and heel B C are provided with the metal rivets, nails, or eyelets a a. These are headed, and are riveted or bent down upon the inner surface of the sole and heel, so asto cause the outer heads to grasp the material 0 and close water-tightthe passages orholes 12 in the rubber material, through whichthe rivets, nails, or eyelets pass.

The rivets, nails, or eyelets a a are by preference made tubular, as shownin Fig. 4, and they might be driven or forced through the material of the sole or heel and riveted or bent render the sole or heel valueless.

After receiving the metal rivets, nails, or

eyelets the sole B or heel C is to be cemented or otherwise secured to the original sole and 

